Re: "Climbing in the polls" [Letter, Village News, 9/13/12]

Mr. Tritchka writes that information supporting Todd Akin’s statement is “readily evident in medical journals.” I would like to know which medical journals he’s referring to. Might these “journals” have been published contemporaneously with “Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management?”

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